Back pain red flags - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is important to note when a patient has traumatic injury If taking Blood Thinners Define delirium Underlying acute cause, abrupt onset, hours to days, reversible, hallucinations, incoherent speech, confusion Define Dementia Various causes, gradual change with mental status, months to years, progressive to irreversible (speech, memory, mood, judgment) An older adult with delirium would present with what type of behaviors? Agitation and restlessness At the onset of alzheimers, what ...

Types of prevention - answer-primary- car restraints, bicycle helmets, immunizations secondary- prevent for those with RF-pap, mammo tertiary-mgmt of established disease- meds, lifestyle Primary - answer-Preventing the health problem, most cost effective form of healthcare **IMMUNIZATIONS, ensuring adequate illumination at home (preventing falls) Secondary - answer-Detecting disease in early asymptomatic stages, screenings -Early cause finding of asymptomatic disease via the use of a sc...

Test Bank for Advanced Assessment Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses, 4th Edition, Mary Jo Goolsby, Laurie Grubbs Table of Contents Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: Overview ................................................ 2 Chapter 2. An Overview of Genetic Assessment ......................................................................... 5 Chapter 3. Skin ...............................................................................................

Final Exam: NR511 / NR 511 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Differential Diagnosis & Primary Care Practicum | Weeks 5 – 8 Exam Study Guide| 100% Correct | Grade A - Chamberlain Question: a 22 year old man is diagnosed with acute low back strains and is given NSAIDs. what educated is needed? Answer: lower back strengthening exercises Question: which of the following is the most commonly associated with vertebral fractures? Answer: osteoporosis Question: A 52 year old OBES...

NR667/ NR 667 VISE (New 2023/ 2024 Update) Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Chamberlain QUESTION Etiology: Back pain -Often unclear -Can be caused by tearing or stretching of nerves, muscles, tendons, ligaments, discs, or fascia secondary to trauma or chronic mechanical stress -Can occur as a symptom of a degenerative disorder (spinal stenosis, DDD, disc herniation) -Compression or irritation of a nerve root can occur along with back pain, causing radiculop...

Back Pain Red Flags

Lachman maneuver Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - (Knee exam) McMurray Sign Injury to the meniscus (knee exam) Cause of meniscus injury suddenly planting leg on the ground and twisting Symptoms of meniscus injury > immediate pain in the planted leg > inability to bear weight > can lock up when trying to straighten it Phalen's test Numbness & tingling in the first 3 digits when pressing the dorsal surface of both hands together in a forced w...

when using PCR for research or quality assurance. what should you delete? - ANSWER Patient's name 6-year-old child fell at the park. no adult around. type of concent? - ANSWER implied first to arrive. using START, you should identify pts who are - ANSWER ambulatory partner comes to work dirty and leaves trash. best describe these actions as? - ANSWER unprofessional verbal consent to treatment is called - ANSWER expressed elderly pt cut her hand, bleeding is controlled. she answer...

Texas Penal Code practice exam, Traffic,TCOLE Review Questions and Answers 2023 A person commits which offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with intent to terrorize him. - aggravated kidnapping Texas has jurisdiction of an offense for a person's conduct of another if: - -conduct outside TX constitutes an attempt to commit an offense inside TX -conduct outside TX constitutes a conspiracy to commit an offense inside TX and an act in furtherance occurs in TX -con...

Lachman maneuver Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - (Knee exam) McMurray Sign Injury to the meniscus (knee exam) Cause of meniscus injury suddenly planting leg on the ground and twisting Symptoms of meniscus injury > immediate pain in the planted leg > inability to bear weight > can lock up when trying to straighten it Phalen's test Numbness & tingling in the first 3 digits when pressing the dorsal surface of both hands together in a forced wrist flexion for at least 1 ...

Choking (ARM) - Assess: gagging, hoarse, no sound, ineffective cough, stridor, cyanosis, LoC, asymptomatic Red flags: gagging, wheezing, coughing, vomiting Manage: • Recognition of obstruction • Back blows or chest thrust for infants • Abdominal thrusts (Heimlich manouvre) in children • Recovery position after removal • CPR if required and call emerge services Preterm infants-normal resp range - 40-70rpm Laryngotracheobronchitis (Croup)-ARM - Assess: increased RR and HR, ...